Tony Brown poses with a variety of trophies he earned in summer football camps at his home in Beaumont, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Tammy McKinley/The Enterprise
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Tony Brown poses with a variety of trophies he earned in summer...

Ozen football player Tony Brown holds a trophy he won last weekend at the Rivals100 Five-Star Challenge in Atlanta. Brown, a junior, was named a top 10 defensive back at the camp. The camp was held June 22-24, 2012.
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Ozen football player Tony Brown holds a trophy he won last weekend...

Ozen football player Tony Brown holds his MVP trophy he won as the top defensive back at the Rivals100 Underclassmen Challenge last weekend in Desoto. Photo taken July 9, 2012.
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Ozen football player Tony Brown holds his MVP trophy he won as the...

Tony Brown holds up one of the many awards he earned while participating in various summer football camps at his home in Beaumont, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Tammy McKinley/The Enterprise
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Tony Brown holds up one of the many awards he earned while...

Tony Brown displays a variety of awards from participating in summer football camps at his home in Beaumont, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Tammy McKinley/The Enterprise
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Ozen wide receiver Tony Brown, 4, is taken down by Nederland defensive back Brandon Dial during the Nederland High School football game against Ozen High School at Nederland High School on Friday, October 26, 2012.
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Ozen wide receiver Tony Brown, 4, is taken down by Nederland...

Ozen football player Tony Brown runs a leg drill using a ladder grid laid down on the ground. The Beaumont Ozen football team had a voluntary strength and conditioning work out at the high school football field at 11 a.m. Thursday August 2, 2012. Teams are gearing up for the start of high school football practices, which are next week for teams who did not hold spring football practice and the week of August 13 for the teams that did. This is the first year a new University Interscholastic League rule is in place mandating a four-day acclimation period for high school football teams. They may not have two-a-day practices until after the first four days of practice and when they do start, they cannot have them in consecutive days. Dave Ryan/The Enterprise
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Ozen football player Tony Brown runs a leg drill using a ladder...

Head Coach Jeff Nelson, right, has a discussion with #4, Tony Brown, before sending him back onto the field during the game with West Brook. Dave Ryan/The Enterprise
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Dreams have Tony Brown on his back, feet above head, and his mother, Tammy, stretching and shaking his weary legs.

The Ozen junior boys track and field athlete anchors the Panthers' 400-meter relay, runs the 110-meter hurdles and runs the 100-meter run - all within about a 15-minute period that will soon shrink to merely a few minutes.

In what little time he has, Brown elevates his feet into his mother's hands with hopes of finding new legs for the next event.

No male athlete has reached the Class 4A or 5A state meet in both the 110 hurdles and 100 run since 1997.

"It's challenging but it's what I train for," Brown said.

What little downtime Brown has is about to lessen during his three events, which are run consecutively.

When Brown competes at the District 20-4A meet, which opens noon Monday with prelims at Babe Zaharias Stadium, there will only be eight schools competing compared to non-district meets that can have dozens.

Ozen coach Freddie Strange said if Brown reaches the regional and state meets, his break will likely consist of walking from the finish line of one event to the starting line of the next.

"He'll literally have to walk back down the track," Strange said.

But this is what Brown has always desired.

He wants to become the first 4A male athlete since Azle's Derek Dorris in 1997 to reach the state meet in both the 110 hurdles and 100 run. Dorris finished third in the 110 hurdles and eight in the 100 that year.

Brown has already recorded this year's fastest mark in the nation in the 110 hurdles with a time of 13.38, and he has run a 10.45 in the 100 that would have given him a first-place finish at last year's 4A state meet.

Both of those times came consecutively last week at the Texas Relays in Austin - also the site of the state meet - just minutes after anchoring Ozen's 400 relay team that finished seventh in 42.38 seconds.

Brown, a defensive back in football, has 21 scholarship offers to play football from programs like Alabama, LSU and Texas.